“Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the kneeds and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.” – Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking This definition of grief from the first chapter of Joan Didion’s
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A Love Story: A 49-Year Marriage Comes to An End
Last Wednesday night at about 6:15 pm, my mom’s heart finally gave up a long, hard fight and she died. The day began dramatically, my mom waking my dad up at 5 am, in the grips of a heart attack. My dad rushed her to the Emergency Room in Flagstaff, Arizona where she quickly received